Download or read book The Healthcare Imperative written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2011-01-17 with total page 852 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The United States has the highest per capita spending on health care of any industrialized nation but continually lags behind other nations in health care outcomes including life expectancy and infant mortality. National health expenditures are projected to exceed $2.5 trillion in 2009. Given healthcare's direct impact on the economy, there is a critical need to control health care spending. According to The Health Imperative: Lowering Costs and Improving Outcomes, the costs of health care have strained the federal budget, and negatively affected state governments, the private sector and individuals. Healthcare expenditures have restricted the ability of state and local governments to fund other priorities and have contributed to slowing growth in wages and jobs in the private sector. Moreover, the number of uninsured has risen from 45.7 million in 2007 to 46.3 million in 2008. The Health Imperative: Lowering Costs and Improving Outcomes identifies a number of factors driving expenditure growth including scientific uncertainty, perverse economic and practice incentives, system fragmentation, lack of patient involvement, and under-investment in population health. Experts discussed key levers for catalyzing transformation of the delivery system. A few included streamlined health insurance regulation, administrative simplification and clarification and quality and consistency in treatment. The book is an excellent guide for policymakers at all levels of government, as well as private sector healthcare workers.
Download or read book 2004 Cpt Std Softbound Edition written by American Medical Association and published by . This book was released on 2003-10 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Easy to use and easy to read, this 2004 edition of the AMA's Current Procedural Terminology official coding reference contains new code changes and other updates to help you code quickly, accurately, and easily.
Download or read book Current Procedural Terminology written by and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Medicare RBRVS written by American Medical Association and published by American Medical Association Press. This book was released on 2002-02 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book CPT Changes written by American Medical Association and published by American Medical Association Press. This book was released on 2009-11 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Provides the official AMA interpretations and explanations for each CPT code and guideline change in the CPT 2010 codebook. Every new, revised, or deleted code, text, and guideline change is listed along with a detailed rationale for the change"--Page 4 of cover
Download or read book Guide to Clinical Documentation written by Debra Sullivan and published by F.A. Davis. This book was released on 2011-12-22 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Develop the skills you need to effectively and efficiently document patient care for children and adults in clinical and hospital settings. This handy guide uses sample notes, writing exercises, and EMR activities to make each concept crystal clear, including how to document history and physical exams and write SOAP notes and prescriptions.
Download or read book Coding for Chest Medicine 2009 written by and published by Chest Physicians - ACCP. This book was released on 2009 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Economics of New Health Technologies written by Joan Costa-Font and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2009-05-14 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Technological change in healthcare has led to huge improvements in health services and the health status of populations. It is also pinpointed as the main driver of healthcare expenditure. Although offering remarkable benefits, changes in technology are not free and often entail significant financial, as well as physical or social risks. These need to be balanced out in the setting of government regulations, insurance contracts, and individuals' decisions to use and consume certain technologies. With this in mind, this book addresses the following important objectives: to provide a detailed analysis of what technological change is; to identify drivers of innovation in several healthcare areas; to present existing mechanisms and processes for ensuring and valuing efficiency and development in the use of medical technologies; and to analyse the impact of advances in medical technology on health, healthcare expenditure, and health insurance. Each of the seventeen chapters summarizes an important issue concerning the innovation debate and contributes to a better understanding of the role innovation has both at the macro level and at the delivery (meso) and micro level in the healthcare sector. The effectiveness of innovation in improving people's welfare depends on its diffusion and inception by the relevant agents in the health production process, and this book recognizes the multi-faceted contribution of policy makers, regulators, managers, technicians, consumers and patients to this technology change. This book offers the first truly global economic analysis of healthcare technologies, taking the subject beyond simply economic evaluation, and exploring the behavioural aspects, organization and incentives for new technology developments, and the adoption and diffusion of these technologies.
Download or read book Cpt Asst Archives Update 2005 written by American Medical Association and published by Amer Medical Assn. This book was released on 2006-02-28 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book CPT Professional 2022 written by American Medical Association and published by . This book was released on 2021-09-17 with total page 1200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CPT(R) 2022 Professional Edition is the definitive AMA-authored resource to help healthcare professionals correctly report and bill medical procedures and services.
Download or read book Registries for Evaluating Patient Outcomes written by Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality/AHRQ and published by Government Printing Office. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This User’s Guide is intended to support the design, implementation, analysis, interpretation, and quality evaluation of registries created to increase understanding of patient outcomes. For the purposes of this guide, a patient registry is an organized system that uses observational study methods to collect uniform data (clinical and other) to evaluate specified outcomes for a population defined by a particular disease, condition, or exposure, and that serves one or more predetermined scientific, clinical, or policy purposes. A registry database is a file (or files) derived from the registry. Although registries can serve many purposes, this guide focuses on registries created for one or more of the following purposes: to describe the natural history of disease, to determine clinical effectiveness or cost-effectiveness of health care products and services, to measure or monitor safety and harm, and/or to measure quality of care. Registries are classified according to how their populations are defined. For example, product registries include patients who have been exposed to biopharmaceutical products or medical devices. Health services registries consist of patients who have had a common procedure, clinical encounter, or hospitalization. Disease or condition registries are defined by patients having the same diagnosis, such as cystic fibrosis or heart failure. The User’s Guide was created by researchers affiliated with AHRQ’s Effective Health Care Program, particularly those who participated in AHRQ’s DEcIDE (Developing Evidence to Inform Decisions About Effectiveness) program. Chapters were subject to multiple internal and external independent reviews.
Download or read book Cpt Asst Archives Update 2005 written by American Medical Association and published by Amer Medical Assn. This book was released on 2006-02-28 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Kinn s The Administrative Medical Assistant E Book written by Alexandra Patricia Adams and published by Elsevier Health Sciences. This book was released on 2013-11-28 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prepare for a successful career in medical assisting! Kinn’s The Administrative Medical Assistant, 8th Edition helps you learn the real-world administrative skills essential to working in the health care office. In-depth coverage ranges from professional behavior and interpersonal skills to billing and coding, electronic health records and management of practice finances. Written by administrative medical assisting expert Alexandra Adams, this classic resource also includes an Evolve companion website with exercises and activities, videos, review questions for the CMA and RMA certification exams, and an interactive portfolio builder. Step-by-step, illustrated procedures make it easier to learn and understand medical assisting skills, and include rationales for each step. Threaded case scenarios let you develop critical thinking skills and apply concepts learned in each chapter to realistic administrative situations. Study Guide includes a variety of exercises to test your knowledge and critical thinking skills, case scenarios from the book, and a Procedure Checklists Manual. Sold separately. Emergency Preparedness and Assisting with Medical Emergencies chapter prepares you to take action during crises and urgent situations. Detailed learning objectives and vocabulary with definitions in each chapter help you study more effectively, with connections icons linking concepts in the text to exercises in the study guide and on the Evolve companion website. Patient education and legal and ethical issues are described in relation to the Medical Assistant's job. A Portfolio Builder on the Evolve website helps you demonstrate proficiency to potential employers. NEW! Charting examples within the procedures are highlighted for easier learning. UPDATED coverage of the Electronic Health Record ensures that you are familiar with the technology you'll use on the job.
Download or read book Step By Step Medical Coding 2017 Edition written by Carol J. Buck and published by . This book was released on 2016-12-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Resource ordered for the Health Information Technology program 105301.
Download or read book Injections and Infusions Coding Toolkit written by HCPro and published by Hcpro Incorporated. This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Updated with 2012 CPTr changes! Hospitals have long struggled under complicated guidelines for coding injection and infusion services. But those days are over. Now, using a simple coding decision tree as your guide, you can master coding for these common procedures without having to master complex coding guidelines. The Injections and Infusions Coding Toolkit was developed by the staff at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, a high-volume and world-renowned cancer treatment facility in Houston, TX. They designed a tool that makes it easy for staff to capture correct codes at point-of-service -- or for coders to use to assign appropriate codes to bill. The toolkit takes the guesswork out of: * Selecting the initial service * Deciding which codes can be reported in combination with other codes Your toolkit is updated with 2012 CPT changes and includes everything you need to get started today, including: * 5 copies of the color-coded, laminated coding decision tree * 5 copies of pocket-sized "cheat sheets" to help identify frequently used codes * A CD-ROM with the coding tree files you can customize for your facility * A PDF training guide and a PowerPoint training presentation
Download or read book The Midwife As Surgical First Assistant written by Nell Tharpe and published by . This book was released on 2020-05-11 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Aaos Musculoskeletal Coding Guide 2020 written by Aaos and published by . This book was released on 2020-02 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This portable guide provides a solid foundation for the Current Procedural Terminology (CPT®) coding system and clarifies E&M coding. Easy-to-use tables help you avoid penalties and increase revenue.? The only book that combines E&M coding guidelines with more than 1,800 musculoskeletal CPT codes? Find Medicare Facility, Nonfacility, and Work RVUs, and Global Fee Periods
